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Lighting Lighting is an important component in making transit passengers feel safe. Agencies are improving lighting in bus or rail stations’ exteriors, interiors, pedestrian corridors and platforms by installing more lighting, and ensuring that the new lighting is easy to maintain, energy-efficient and meets both current and evolving guidelines for sustainability. Although it can be…

CBTC replaces legacy signaling systems that have been used in some locations since the 1930s, or earlier. These manually operated “fixed-block” systems employ electric track circuits, spaced at specific, 1,000-foot intervals or “blocks,” to help determine a train’s location. Ideally, the circuits and signals keep one train from entering a block that another is occupying.…

Expanding and Enhancing Capabilities VRC expands the capabilities of a traditional, brick-and-mortar ramp tower by providing intelligent views, coupled with data, in a setting not otherwise possible. Most recognizable is the VRC use of a video wall in lieu of a traditional window. VRC employs the concept of an intelligent “window” view, creating a virtual…

Employees trained in how to appropriately respond to and report potential threats can easily and cost-effectively supplement even the most sophisticated of security systems. They can observe and react to things that seem out of the ordinary, which analytic cameras miss. Employees with airport-wide access, such as maintenance workers, can see and identify potential threats…

Make Technology a Priority from the Start Traditional airport planning and design begins with engaging a planner and architect to address increased passenger demand or infrastructure needs. But, while airport planning and design commonly includes cutting-edge architecture and striking aesthetics, their current and future technology needs often are not considered until much later. As a…